The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

monia.
THE court martial called ct Guaymas,
Mex, to try the prisoners for outrages
committed March 3, at Nogales, Ari., was
held on the 4th. Colonel Arvisah Nisu, Lieu
tenant Gutierrez and Emanuel Valanzuela
were sentenced to be shot.
ONE hundred and fifty miners were en-
tombed by an explosion in the shaft OF the
Victoria Company's coal mine at Nanalmo,
B. c., on the night of the Sd. 1t was thought
that all the men must have persisted as the
mine shortly afterward caught fire.
A PREMATURE blast caused the death OF
twelve men in the Coosa tunnel of the
Georgia Central railway extension on the
4th.
Mr. KINBALL, superintendent of the Lifa
Saving Service, is compiling the statistics
of the winters work. He says there were
more wrecks, more rescues and more loss
of life than in any year since the service
was organized.
THE west bound accommodation on the
Intercolonial railway struck an avalanche
of snow near Moncton, n. B., on the 9Th.
Two engines and four first-class cars ran
of the track, killing Fireman Pierre Lee
vasgeur and Brakeman Alfred Lavard.
Riots over the Wagner opera were re-
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ma64 against the German embassy, which
was protected by guard.
THE Chinese quarters in San Jose, Cal,
were destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
So, 900; insurance, $4,000
A FANATIC ran amuck at Odessa, Russia,
the other day and stabbed six Jews, kill
ing two He was arrested IN restaurant,
where he attacked and injured Jewish
waiter A mob of Jews tried to lynch him.
THE steamer Aisle, from Barcelona for
Marseilles, has been sunk in a collision
with the French Transatlantic Company's
steamer Ajaccio from Cette for Algiers.
Several passengers were drowned.
THREE attendants at the Buffalo, n, Y,
insane asylum, have been indicted for the
murder of an inmate.
THE Mexicans celebrated the anniversary
of their victory over the French May 5.
AT Wilmington, N. c., recently four
negro boys were killed by the accidental
discharge of a double-barreled gun. An
other boy was wounded.
IT is reported that the Car has decided
that the sentences of death pronounced
against the nihilists convicted of compile
ity in the recent attempt to assassinate
him shall be committed to Imprisonment at
| hard labor for life, in the case of all but
two.
THE fertilizer works of NJ. Dorsey, OF
Highlandtown, near Baltimore, Nd, were
destroyed by fire the other morning. Loss,
| 500, 600; insurance, $4,000.
THE st. Louis Supplies Manufacturing
| Company, an old and we'll known establish
ment, doing business on North Main street,
has made an assignment. The company
owed its directors about $3.50, 900. The total
liabilities were $4,000.
TELEGRAMs from the Pennsylvania coke
region state that j. Laughlin & Co., Stew
art Iron Company, Hogsett q Co, Percy
Mining Company and Everson & Co., have
granted the demands of the strikers and
resumed operations.
| THE steamer Adriatic arrived at New
York on the 9th. Among her passengers
were thirteen men who recently resigned
from the Irish constabulary because they
were opposed to assisting in evicting ten
ants from their farms.
THE pool which was formed by different
railroads centering in Pittsburgh, Pa, to
control the shipments of ores from the
coke parts has been dissolved. The strike
| in the coke regions has caused tot al sus-
pension of shipments Of coke.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended May 5. numbered for the United
States, 1873; for Canada, %; total, Is
against l91 the previous week and 1872 fol
the corresponding week of last year.
THE colonial conference in London ap
proved the proposal to lay cable between
| Vancouver and Australia.
| THREE Mexican sheep herders were found
dead seventy-five miles west of Albu
querque, n. NJ, shortly after the recent
earthquake. 1t was supposed they had
died of fright.
THE British ship Bancla lis days from
Manila, arrived at New York on the 9th
During the voyage three of her crew died
of scurvy, another was at the point OF
death and of a crew of nineteen men only
six were barely able for duty.
ONE hundred houses were destroyed by
fire in the town of Epericus, Hungary, the
other day.
EXTENSIVE fires were reported raging in
the Catskill forests near the great Kaaters.
kill summer hotel.
THE other night freight train on the St
Louis & Iron Mountain railroad, bound
| south, was thrown from the track by land
slide near Cliff Cave station. In ont
of the box cars were two men, John OMal-
ley, of st. Louis, and an unknown man.
They were buried beneath the debris anC
when exhumed were dead.